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nbc first reported that susan rice was paying visits to members of the foreign relations committee. that's her first stop in the nominating process if the president does pick her. senator john mccain later confirmed to nbc news that he will be meeting with ambassador rice tomorrow along with lindsey graham of south carolina. they have joined john mccain in criticizing the potential nomination of susan rice, criticizing that nomination on the basis of ambassador rice's role in explaining what happened in the attack on the u.s. consulate in benghazi. now nbc's andrea mitchell is reporting tonight that the acting director of the cia is going to be joining ambassador rice in person for that meeting tomorrow with those critical senators. we'll keep you posted if we learn more about this breaking news tonight. but the long and short of this is, number one, the acting cia director getting involved in resolving the factual matters that have been contested by republican senators, and two, we have the strongest signal we have had yet about who the president will likely nominate to replace hil
nbc first reported that susan rice was paying visits to members of the foreign relations committee. that's her first stop in the nominating process if the president does pick her. senator john mccain later confirmed to nbc news that he will be meeting with ambassador rice tomorrow along with lindsey graham of south carolina. they have joined john mccain in criticizing the potential nomination of susan rice, criticizing that nomination on the basis of ambassador rice's role in explaining what...
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joining me nbc and hill columnist karen and congressman jim saltzman. it's not like '08 when he simply returned to the senate, like john mccain. what's next for mitt romney? does he even fit into the ongoing political conversation? >> that's a good question. the nice thing about being a billionaire is that you can choose your role, most likely. i don't think we'll see governor romney trying to maintain or bring -- have any kind of leadership role in the republican party going forward. i do think, having gone through a version of this in the aftermath of 2004 with democrats where there again you had john kerry, who went back to the senate, but there still was this question about who was the leader of the democratic party. i don't think you'll see mitt romney be a part of that conversation. i would imagine he'll take some time off and kind of heal from all of this. a loss is a loss. and then decide for himself. i actually would not be surprised if we don't really see him on the national political scene much anymore. >> certainly, it is tough because you p
joining me nbc and hill columnist karen and congressman jim saltzman. it's not like '08 when he simply returned to the senate, like john mccain. what's next for mitt romney? does he even fit into the ongoing political conversation? >> that's a good question. the nice thing about being a billionaire is that you can choose your role, most likely. i don't think we'll see governor romney trying to maintain or bring -- have any kind of leadership role in the republican party going forward. i...
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nbc's martin fletcher. many thoongs. >>> joining me now on that, cnbc chief washington correspondent and political writer for "the new york times" john harwood. good morning, john. >> good morning, alex. >> so we have the president trying to deescalate the conflict between israel and gaza, calling leaders at least in that region. but give per spikive on this for us. what kind of position does this fight put president obama in? >> well, look, president obama's larger foreign policy goal is to both secure a peace deal in the region but also improve the united states' relations with the islamic world. and the fact that you have this new government, after the arab spring, which has been the administration has seen as a success overthrowing autocrats who have been somewhat friendly like hosni mubarak, you have egypt embracing hamas, putting the united states at odds with its ally in the region israel, it makes it difficult. so every statement that we've seen from the white house about his consultations whether i
nbc's martin fletcher. many thoongs. >>> joining me now on that, cnbc chief washington correspondent and political writer for "the new york times" john harwood. good morning, john. >> good morning, alex. >> so we have the president trying to deescalate the conflict between israel and gaza, calling leaders at least in that region. but give per spikive on this for us. what kind of position does this fight put president obama in? >> well, look, president...
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joining me now from the white house is nbc's viqueira. you were listening as the audio was piped back to the white house. >> yes. >> did you get the sense the president is using his time on the flight to focus on diplomacy in the middle east? there. >> the concern is heightening as the hour goes by. the exchange of rocket between hamas in the gaza strip and the form of the israeli defense forces really is raising concerns here and abroad. the president spoke again with prime minister benjamin netanyahu of israel. he has spoken with him each of the last four days since this really has escalated, mar rachlt they talked about the iron dome program. this is the rocket defense system that has worked relatively effectively at getting good reviews now. this is a system that the united states has helped design and pay for to assist israel. it has picked off maybe a third of the rockets that have headed into israeli territory over the past several days. they also talked about the need for a deescalation of what is happening. this exchange of rocke
joining me now from the white house is nbc's viqueira. you were listening as the audio was piped back to the white house. >> yes. >> did you get the sense the president is using his time on the flight to focus on diplomacy in the middle east? there. >> the concern is heightening as the hour goes by. the exchange of rocket between hamas in the gaza strip and the form of the israeli defense forces really is raising concerns here and abroad. the president spoke again with prime...
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my only message to ms-nbc, nbc, comcast, you own this guy. you own responsibility for the things he is saying. he thought this -- he is out of control. i mean, what more disgusting things can he say that he had the has to aapproximately is for, like putting aibleet in rush's head and have it explode. the insults and attacks, accusing conservatives of being racists. the hatred campaign, the attacks on sarar, the insults on michele bachmann. he is a pretty insulting person. i mean that in the way i am saying it. >> sean: he did apologize -- in fairness, i have known chris -- >> i don't care. i don't care that he apologizes-- >>> he has changed. something has happened. he has never been like this. in the times i met him. he used to not be like this. something has happened. you have been covering him for years. >> viknown him for years. this is want the chris matthews i knew. he was very left wing 10 years ago. but he was want this way. he wasn't insulting. he wasn't spiteful. ?ool chicago -- all right. let's move on. we will stick with his show.
my only message to ms-nbc, nbc, comcast, you own this guy. you own responsibility for the things he is saying. he thought this -- he is out of control. i mean, what more disgusting things can he say that he had the has to aapproximately is for, like putting aibleet in rush's head and have it explode. the insults and attacks, accusing conservatives of being racists. the hatred campaign, the attacks on sarar, the insults on michele bachmann. he is a pretty insulting person. i mean that in the way...
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nbc news has now confirmed 94 deaths from the storm. more than half of those killed, 48 died in the state of new york. of that 48 in the state, 40 deaths occurred here in new york city. and of those 40 new york city deaths, more than half, 22, occurred in the borough that was the hardest hit. staten island. it's greater than every other state hit by the storm. in new jersey, 13 died. 11 people died in maryland. there were seven deaths in pennsylvania. west virginia lost six people, four people died in connecticut, in north carolina two died and one person died in puerto rico. speaking to reporters today on staten island, homeland security. >> it's been mentioned this was a large storm. the area that sandy covered was roughly the size of europe. we know that staten island took a particularly hard hit from sandy, so we want to make sure that the right resources are brought here as quickly as possible to help this community which is so very strong recover even more quickly. >> secretary napolitano told reporters today they had fema and the
nbc news has now confirmed 94 deaths from the storm. more than half of those killed, 48 died in the state of new york. of that 48 in the state, 40 deaths occurred here in new york city. and of those 40 new york city deaths, more than half, 22, occurred in the borough that was the hardest hit. staten island. it's greater than every other state hit by the storm. in new jersey, 13 died. 11 people died in maryland. there were seven deaths in pennsylvania. west virginia lost six people, four people...
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nbc's kristen welker live at the white house. let's get into this. these meetings, i'm sure this was very civil. surely romney's comments leading up to this meeting about how president obama won this election was probably on the president's mind today. >> reporter: well, you would have to imagine that those comments were, thomas. however, i did ask white house press secretary jay carney if romney's comments that president obama won because he gave some of his key constituents gifts weighed in on the luncheon or if the op-ed written by chief romney strategist stewart stevens suggested president obama won because he's an african-american president who got middle class voters to vote for him, if any of these recent comments overshadowed or clouded this lunch. carney essentially said that they didn't have an impact. that president obama understands it was a tough campaign season and that this is the type of sort of looking back at the campaign that is going to happen in the weeks following the campaign. what carney did also confirm, thomas, is that romne
nbc's kristen welker live at the white house. let's get into this. these meetings, i'm sure this was very civil. surely romney's comments leading up to this meeting about how president obama won this election was probably on the president's mind today. >> reporter: well, you would have to imagine that those comments were, thomas. however, i did ask white house press secretary jay carney if romney's comments that president obama won because he gave some of his key constituents gifts...
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nbc news justice correspondent pete joins us. now we know this is going to move forward. >> that's right. and, you know, it's been her insistence all along and for several reasons it's understandable why they wanted to hear from him, he was the cia director when the attack happened and went to libya and did sort of a fact-finding trip and came back and had additional information all of which the committee still wants to hear and according to our pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski, petraeus himself wanted to do this and called his old colleagues at the cia and said, listen, i know they want to hear from me, i want to testify so they want to hear from him, he wants to testify so it's going to happen. it should be clarified here though, thomas, it won't be an open session. it'll be a closed session because obviously they'll be discussing classified information. >> pete, the other interesting thing we're just learning this new information about the e-mails between jill kelley and general allen and one source describing to nbc ne
nbc news justice correspondent pete joins us. now we know this is going to move forward. >> that's right. and, you know, it's been her insistence all along and for several reasons it's understandable why they wanted to hear from him, he was the cia director when the attack happened and went to libya and did sort of a fact-finding trip and came back and had additional information all of which the committee still wants to hear and according to our pentagon correspondent jim miklaszewski,...
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one democratic senate aid tells nbc news, people are happy to fight for her. she's obviously qualified. no one on our side thinks there's credibility to the republican criticisms. i'm joined by joan walsh, author of the book "what's the matter with white people?" it seems like she's walked into a political trap. they made it a political trap after she was the one that wanted to set up and explain things. what do you make of it? >> she does them the courtesy of going to see them. nothing compelled her to do that. she thought she would show them respect and she gets disrespected. the only thing -- what it sounded like from mccain, the only thing that would have made them happy is if she had come out that day and divulged classified information. they are more interested in getting to the bottom of what she said than to actually what happened in benghazi. >> why aren't they calling for more hearings? if john mccain meets with her and they say this there are many answers, just not one report, but many answers nap has my curiosity up. what does mccain want? >> i thi
one democratic senate aid tells nbc news, people are happy to fight for her. she's obviously qualified. no one on our side thinks there's credibility to the republican criticisms. i'm joined by joan walsh, author of the book "what's the matter with white people?" it seems like she's walked into a political trap. they made it a political trap after she was the one that wanted to set up and explain things. what do you make of it? >> she does them the courtesy of going to see them....
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. >> nbc's luke russert joins us live from the capital. luke, joe walsh was the first elected member to appear on this broadcast. what finally finished him off? his disgraceful attacks on tommy duck worth, his contempt for the president, hiss abuse of harry reid, his failure to pay child support, his abusive response to constituents? i could go on. what do you think it was? >> well, martin, all politics is local is something we're fond of saying, and the knock on joe walsh was that he was more concerned with his own self-image than he was for the actual constituents in the district. >> you surprise me. why would anyone think that of the great mr. walsh. >> what's interesting if you talk to high level gop aides, a lot of them are smiling owe every this joe walsh loss because guess what? one less thorn in the side of speaker boehner within his own conference he has to think about and deal with. there weren't a lot of tears at rnc headquarters when joe walsh went down. >> wow, so they're actually celebrating his demise. todd akin is gone havi
. >> nbc's luke russert joins us live from the capital. luke, joe walsh was the first elected member to appear on this broadcast. what finally finished him off? his disgraceful attacks on tommy duck worth, his contempt for the president, hiss abuse of harry reid, his failure to pay child support, his abusive response to constituents? i could go on. what do you think it was? >> well, martin, all politics is local is something we're fond of saying, and the knock on joe walsh was that...
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nbc news investigative correspondent michael isikoff describes what was in those e-mails. >> they accuse her of improper socializing. but they have references to the comings and goings to general petraeus. >> the fbi followed the computer trail that led them to paula broadwell. both broadwell and petraeus admitted they were having an affair after reviewing evidence prosecutors concluded no crimes were committed, but now some members of congress are saying that they or president obama should have been notified that such an investigation was even being conducted. it's curious timing for the conspiracy theorists at fox news. they are still beating the drum on benghazi. petraeus was supposed to testify over the matter. >> based on the evidence we had then, this was the obama administration's watergate. >> officials say petraeus's decision to leave the cia was entirely personal and had nothing to do with benghazi or politics. but that's not how fox news sees it. >> there's not many stories that could knock the president's reelection right out of the headlines. not many. we got one. >> are you
nbc news investigative correspondent michael isikoff describes what was in those e-mails. >> they accuse her of improper socializing. but they have references to the comings and goings to general petraeus. >> the fbi followed the computer trail that led them to paula broadwell. both broadwell and petraeus admitted they were having an affair after reviewing evidence prosecutors concluded no crimes were committed, but now some members of congress are saying that they or president...
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the senior defense official tells nbc news that panetta didn't make this decision lightly. secretary clinton acknowledged she has talked to u.s. partners about the allen case but says it won't harm the war effort. >> general allen is a distinguished marine and commander who has been an important part of the nato isap mission in afghanistan. there's been a lot of conversation, as you might expect, bob, but no concern whatsoever being expressed to us because the mission has been set forth. it is being carried out. >> the head of nato also told reporters today in brussels that he has full confidence in general allen. we are also learning more about the 20,000 to 30,000 documents that include some e-mails between general allen and the tampa socialite jill kelley which the pentagon calls potentially inappropriate communications. the fbi has characterized some of the e-mails as, quote, flirtatious. the general strongly denies any misconduct and the fbi has not found any wrongdoing. we're also learning more about kelley herself who is known in tampa for throwing lavish parties at
the senior defense official tells nbc news that panetta didn't make this decision lightly. secretary clinton acknowledged she has talked to u.s. partners about the allen case but says it won't harm the war effort. >> general allen is a distinguished marine and commander who has been an important part of the nato isap mission in afghanistan. there's been a lot of conversation, as you might expect, bob, but no concern whatsoever being expressed to us because the mission has been set forth....
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nbc terrorism expert michael lighten says that this is a common practice in intelligence briefings. >> it's a place the intelligence community has to be is having classified information and having to talk about it publicly. because you lose nuance, you lose context, and those up classified statements often appear to be misleading, but what they are doing is protecting the sensitive information which is in the classified realm. >> after today's testimony, senator kent conrad told it like it is. >> what is very clear is that ambassador rice used the talking points that the intelligence committee had all signed off on. that is very, very clear. she used the unclassified talking points that were signed off on by the entire intelligence community. so criticisms of her are completely unwarranted. that is very clear. >> let me paraphrase president obama. could you say that a little louder, senator conrad? >> what is very clear is that ambassador rice used the unclassified talking points, the unclassified talking points that the entire intelligence community had signed off on. so she did comp
nbc terrorism expert michael lighten says that this is a common practice in intelligence briefings. >> it's a place the intelligence community has to be is having classified information and having to talk about it publicly. because you lose nuance, you lose context, and those up classified statements often appear to be misleading, but what they are doing is protecting the sensitive information which is in the classified realm. >> after today's testimony, senator kent conrad told it...
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nbc's katy tur has been in hoboken and reporting. slightly better scene today, the floodwaters are being pumped out. but what is left behind is of course another whole story. katy? >> reporter: yeah, of course. it's a much different scene than when we saw yesterday. you saw me in shin-high water a few blocks from here. waters have receded in the majority of the area. streets are clear. what is left, nothing anyone wants to deal with. this is sludge, mud, sewage. you don't want to think about what's in the water or in this muck, i should say. look at this basement here. there's a lot of water around here, though. four to six feet of water. and that's why they're still pumping and that's why it takes so long. don't be fooled by the streets being cleared. 500 million gallons of watfe wa would take two days. pumping all day, maybe tonight, tomorrow morning this water will be gone and then getting to the power lines. look where the water line was. this is about four feet high. i'm, you know, 5'3" on a good day. this probably four feet hig
nbc's katy tur has been in hoboken and reporting. slightly better scene today, the floodwaters are being pumped out. but what is left behind is of course another whole story. katy? >> reporter: yeah, of course. it's a much different scene than when we saw yesterday. you saw me in shin-high water a few blocks from here. waters have receded in the majority of the area. streets are clear. what is left, nothing anyone wants to deal with. this is sludge, mud, sewage. you don't want to think...
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the ceo of amazon, jeff bezos, was on nbc's "today" thshow thi morning talking about the kindle. >> if you look at our kindle fire hd, high-definition display, pack a lot of technology into a very low price point. $199. because we don't make any profit when we sell the device. we sell the device near break-even and then we hope to make money over time as people use the device. they buy ebooks, they buy mp3s, they buy games and that's a different approach. it's working for us. >> certainly working for apple as well. amazon, of course, the stock for the year up now 30%. >> simon, thank you. >>> the fiscal cliff and shifting tax landscape, which have dominated the financial and political dialogue, has prompted many investors to take fresh looks at their portfolios and financial futures. to that end, fidelity investments with $3.8 trillion under management. kathleen, welcome back. i wonder what you're hearing from the people for whom you manage money about the fiscal cliff and whether they, in their portfolios, feel hostage in any way to what's going on in washington. >> we recently survey
the ceo of amazon, jeff bezos, was on nbc's "today" thshow thi morning talking about the kindle. >> if you look at our kindle fire hd, high-definition display, pack a lot of technology into a very low price point. $199. because we don't make any profit when we sell the device. we sell the device near break-even and then we hope to make money over time as people use the device. they buy ebooks, they buy mp3s, they buy games and that's a different approach. it's working for us....
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nbc's sand carey sanders why did it take so long? >> i can't believe it's saturday and we're talking about this. but officially florida officials say obama has taken florida with 50% of the vote to romney's 49.1% of the vote. why did it take so long? well, there's a combination of factors. first of all, florida has early voting. now, previously it had been 14 days. but the republican governor rick scott cut it back to eight days. so that meant a lot of people who normally would have gone were unable to go. so if they didn't want to go stand in those ridiculously long lines that they expected were going to come, they chose to at the last minute do absentee ballots which take a lot longer to process. so you had already 2 million plus people on absentee ballots plus now people at the last minute filling out absentee ballots which sort of jammed the system up. then on the actual voting day you saw the overwhelming lines in florida. some people were still voting on tuesday at midnight, well past the close of 7:00 p.m. effectively what thi
nbc's sand carey sanders why did it take so long? >> i can't believe it's saturday and we're talking about this. but officially florida officials say obama has taken florida with 50% of the vote to romney's 49.1% of the vote. why did it take so long? well, there's a combination of factors. first of all, florida has early voting. now, previously it had been 14 days. but the republican governor rick scott cut it back to eight days. so that meant a lot of people who normally would have gone...
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. >> yes, the first i heard of it was reports on ms nbc yesterday saying that he was involved in some discussions about his future with the white house and that that feature status was not entirely clear. at that point, what people thought was that the discussions probably had something to do with the episode in benghazi in september and, you know, the intelligence that flowed or failed to flow from that to the white house in a timely fashion. however, within the period of an hour or so, really while the white house briefing was taking place yesterday, it became clear it was something, at least on the surface, quite different than that, and within a short time we had statements from petraeus and from the director of national intelligence, jim clapper, saying that he would be leaving. the amazing thing really was that petraeus' statement explicitly acknowledged the reason he was leaving was because of an extramarital affair, which is pretty unusual thing to see in the formal announcement from a high-level official. host: you wrote yesterday, and we got this from the newjersey..com blog
. >> yes, the first i heard of it was reports on ms nbc yesterday saying that he was involved in some discussions about his future with the white house and that that feature status was not entirely clear. at that point, what people thought was that the discussions probably had something to do with the episode in benghazi in september and, you know, the intelligence that flowed or failed to flow from that to the white house in a timely fashion. however, within the period of an hour or so,...
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brian sullivan is at nbc's democracy plaza. we need to be watching. it has 13 electoral votes and the polls close in about 90 minutes along with south carolina, georgia and kentucky. so what is the latest on the ground? >> reporter: it's absolutely right. what we are seeing is still long lines. the polls close in 90 minutes. they are starting to handout hot chocolate as the temperature starts to dips and says everyone in line will get to vote. we have heard of long lines throughout the morning. the state board of elections held a press conference hearing complaints of long lines in northern virginia. they say they have heard of complaints of too few voting machines. they say these are all minor and anyone in line will get to vote. of course, this state is divided by north and south. president obama, the first democrat to win virginia in over 40 years and he depended largely on northern virginia which has become more diverse, more urban than it has been. there was a huge housing boom here. condos and houses that brought a lot of d.c. and its population
brian sullivan is at nbc's democracy plaza. we need to be watching. it has 13 electoral votes and the polls close in about 90 minutes along with south carolina, georgia and kentucky. so what is the latest on the ground? >> reporter: it's absolutely right. what we are seeing is still long lines. the polls close in 90 minutes. they are starting to handout hot chocolate as the temperature starts to dips and says everyone in line will get to vote. we have heard of long lines throughout the...
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nbc terrorism expert michael lighten says that this is a common practice in intelligence briefings. >> it's a place the intelligence community has to be is having classified information and having to talk about it publicly. because you lose knew waps, you lose context, and those up classified statements often appear to be misleading, but what they are doing is protecting the sensitive information which is in the classified realm. >> after today's testimony, senator kent conrad told it like it is. >> what is very clear is that ambassador rice used the talking points that the intelligence committee had all signed off on. that is very, very clear. she used the unclassified talking points that were signed off on by the entire intelligence community. so criticisms of her are completely unwarranted. that is very clear. >> let me paraphrase president obama. could you say that a little louder, senator conrad? >> what is very clear is that ambassador rice used the unclassified talking points, the unclassified talking points that the entire intelligence community had signed off on. so she did c
nbc terrorism expert michael lighten says that this is a common practice in intelligence briefings. >> it's a place the intelligence community has to be is having classified information and having to talk about it publicly. because you lose knew waps, you lose context, and those up classified statements often appear to be misleading, but what they are doing is protecting the sensitive information which is in the classified realm. >> after today's testimony, senator kent conrad told...
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ohio we should mention nbc news and the marist organization yesterday put out their poll for ohio has the president up six. a whopping margin compared to what we've seen in the past. our poll even has the president up two in florida. so the obama team certainly optimistic and down the stretch they come to keep that sports metaphor going. >> love it. thank you. >> as for the challenger mitt romney needs to rally his troops and out gun the president's skilled operation. peter zand certificate on a plane right now with the romney campaign. he called this report for us right before takeoff. >> reporter: two stops down, three more to go today as part of the 72 hour final sprint for mitt romney here in dubuque, iowa there's been a unique opportunity on the campaign plane as we prepare to board for colorado. several of the governor's top advisers are traveling with the campaign today. of course predictions about what will happen on tuesday. there's a sense they are soaking in these final hours of a campaign that many of them have been working on during the course of the last five years. the
ohio we should mention nbc news and the marist organization yesterday put out their poll for ohio has the president up six. a whopping margin compared to what we've seen in the past. our poll even has the president up two in florida. so the obama team certainly optimistic and down the stretch they come to keep that sports metaphor going. >> love it. thank you. >> as for the challenger mitt romney needs to rally his troops and out gun the president's skilled operation. peter zand...
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stuart: left-leaning ms nbc anchor dennis: use said he was glad for superstorm sandy because it helped president obama win election. he is apologizing. >> i was on last night for ten hours straight from 5:00 in the evening until 3:00 in the morning. a few minutes to 3:00 i did something terrible. i said i was glad about the coming of tropical storm sandy because of its impact on this national campaign. and is a terrible thing to say period. stuart: when he said because he was tired. for i will start with you. you were in staten island, new york yesterday reporting on dreadful damage, allow the federal response. of what your reaction to the apology. >> yes saying i talk too much. i am sure people on strand island formerly known as staten island would not appreciate that half-hearted apology and parts of new jersey looking like dennis but the thought police and media matters, who do beverly hillbillies very proud have yet to respond about this and they are attacked example organization. if they were fair and balanced you would see some criticism of saying hurricane sandy is a good thing
stuart: left-leaning ms nbc anchor dennis: use said he was glad for superstorm sandy because it helped president obama win election. he is apologizing. >> i was on last night for ten hours straight from 5:00 in the evening until 3:00 in the morning. a few minutes to 3:00 i did something terrible. i said i was glad about the coming of tropical storm sandy because of its impact on this national campaign. and is a terrible thing to say period. stuart: when he said because he was tired. for i...
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let's go to gaza, nbc foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin. it's good to see you as always. what do we know in terms of the outline of any brokered cease-fire and your assessment of hillary clinton's role in this or her presence at the table? >> sure. in fact, i was just speaking to a source at the presidential palace in egypt who assured me there was no announcement yet to be made from the presidential palace regarding a truce agreement. he gave me a simple explanation. the president's sister passed away in egypt, still at the funeral and with family. he was not expected to be back in cairo to make an announcem t announcement. it was something that would probably come out of the egyptian intelligence service which has been negotiating intensity. egypt's president mohamed morsi is from the muslim brother hood. it's unlike he he has been involved in negotiations with the israeli side. the only people that could negotiate between the israelis and meet with hamas and other palestinian factions are probably the intelligence agencies there. that's where we understand the negotiat
let's go to gaza, nbc foreign correspondent ayman mohyeldin. it's good to see you as always. what do we know in terms of the outline of any brokered cease-fire and your assessment of hillary clinton's role in this or her presence at the table? >> sure. in fact, i was just speaking to a source at the presidential palace in egypt who assured me there was no announcement yet to be made from the presidential palace regarding a truce agreement. he gave me a simple explanation. the president's...
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nbc senior political editor mark murray is here with this morning's first read. mark, the picture is worth 1,000 words. that's why they did this, for the picture. >> it was a symbolic moment. not a lot was said. we've gotten little reporting on any big substance, but you could argue the symbolism does matter. we had a campaign that essent l essentially lasted two years, a lot of tough words, a very personal campaign and it proves to the american public that, you know what, we can all move on as a country even after a tough campaign, that life goes on, you accept who wins. you accept who loses even in a close contest after 2,000 which was a statistical tie between al gore and george w. bush, the country does move on and we head to the next election. >> i always say to people, look, mitt romney didn't come all that close to winning. he didn't come as close as i thought he might. one quick other follow-up on this, the thing i've been struck by, does mitt romney retain a constituency within the repub c republican party? he was the nominee. he got the votes. but it do
nbc senior political editor mark murray is here with this morning's first read. mark, the picture is worth 1,000 words. that's why they did this, for the picture. >> it was a symbolic moment. not a lot was said. we've gotten little reporting on any big substance, but you could argue the symbolism does matter. we had a campaign that essent l essentially lasted two years, a lot of tough words, a very personal campaign and it proves to the american public that, you know what, we can all move...
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he used to run all of nbc's universal. why would you? why would you do that? dennis: when you have as much money as he does, it is no longer about the money. it is about your legacy. if you can go into cnn and turn them around, his reputation will be sealed. cheryl: i am thinking katie couric is not very happy about this right now. a california solo company is going public next week. it gives investors like it for a billion-dollar market cap. dennis: if you think you will win big tonight, we have some advice on scoring .powerball jackpot. i bought yesterday. take a look at some of today's winners on the nasdaq. ♪ cheryl: this will begin trading on the nasdaq december 12. spectacular pictures from the big island of hawaii. a rare sight as an active volcano is spilling lava into the ocean. attracting thrill seekers and gawkers. they are warning they need to keep a safe distance. it creates a unstable land mass that could easily collapse. how about getting this out of a slot machine and zip lining downtown. officials planned to call it slot zila. riders will pa
he used to run all of nbc's universal. why would you? why would you do that? dennis: when you have as much money as he does, it is no longer about the money. it is about your legacy. if you can go into cnn and turn them around, his reputation will be sealed. cheryl: i am thinking katie couric is not very happy about this right now. a california solo company is going public next week. it gives investors like it for a billion-dollar market cap. dennis: if you think you will win big tonight, we...
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but it's been a lot of fun to do that with nbc. but if my eye looks great, i developed this site in and my right eyelid two days ago. you know, i guess probably just getting worn out and stuff and not having nicely. anyway, i apologize for all that. let's talk about what happened. this is the first time that obviously said anything comes of this is somewhat disjointed. but on the presidential, this thing kind of played out a lot like what we kind of thought. i mean, my process is sort of watching the evolution of what romney needed to do to start off with a 22 states that mccain won with 180 electoral votes. and many say okay, now he's obviously going to win indiana. so that gets to 191 and then probably the next easiest state would be north carolina. and then, what would he have to do after that to get up to 270? you know, we still have two states still out, florida, virginia, which were going to be my next two states he would need to win and they are still undecided at this point. with obama slightly ahead in both of them. basica
but it's been a lot of fun to do that with nbc. but if my eye looks great, i developed this site in and my right eyelid two days ago. you know, i guess probably just getting worn out and stuff and not having nicely. anyway, i apologize for all that. let's talk about what happened. this is the first time that obviously said anything comes of this is somewhat disjointed. but on the presidential, this thing kind of played out a lot like what we kind of thought. i mean, my process is sort of...
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joining us to fill us in on all the developments in the house is nbc's luke russert. luke, there is the story of nancy pelosi and steny hoyer goes back 50 years. on another day when we have more time, i want to get into it. >> both interns in that senate maryland office. >> senator brewster. the question in the immediate term is this. if she were to step aside right now, the only guy who has the votes to replace here is tenney hoyer. she's stoking speculation she might leave, but what is the scuttle but there? is she still the deck tim leader when this is over? >> in preparation for this segment i made calls to folks about what she thought would help behind the scenes. a small group thinks pelosi could stay, and she enjoys the fund-raising aspect and being part of the conversation. if she wants to stay, it's all hers. if she goes, there's speculation she can appoint her own successor, perhaps somebody who is more appealing to the liberals within her caucus. the caucus is more liberal in the last election to supersede steny hoyer. from conversations i've had recently f
joining us to fill us in on all the developments in the house is nbc's luke russert. luke, there is the story of nancy pelosi and steny hoyer goes back 50 years. on another day when we have more time, i want to get into it. >> both interns in that senate maryland office. >> senator brewster. the question in the immediate term is this. if she were to step aside right now, the only guy who has the votes to replace here is tenney hoyer. she's stoking speculation she might leave, but...